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Full-body Pose Tracking – the Top View Reprojection Approach

Sigalas M., Pateraki M., Trahanias P., 2015. Full-body Pose Tracking – the Top View Reprojection Approach. IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence [doi]. Abstract: Recent introduction of low-cost depth cameras triggered a number of interesting works, pushing forward the state-of-the-art in human body pose extraction and tracking. However, despite the remarkable progress, many […]

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Visual estimation of attentive cues in HRI: The case of torso and head pose.

Sigalas M., Pateraki M. and Trahanias P., 2015. Visual estimation of attentive cues in HRI: The case of torso and head pose. In Computer Vision Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 9163, pp. 375-388. Proc. of the 10th Intl. Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), 6-9 July, Kopenhagen, Denmark. [doi] [bib] Abstract: Capturing visual […]

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Robust articulated upper body pose tracking under severe occlusions

Sigalas M., Pateraki M. and Trahanias P., 2014. Robust articulated upper body pose tracking under severe occlusionsIn Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 14-18 September, Chicago, USA. [doi] [pdf] [bib] Abstract: Articulated human body tracking is one of the most thoroughly examined, yet still challenging, tasks in Human Robot Interaction. The […]

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Visual estimation of pointed targets for robot guidance via fusion of face pose and hand orientation

Pateraki M., Baltzakis H., Trahanias P., 2014. Visual estimation of pointed targets for robot guidance via fusion of face pose and hand orientation. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. [doi] [bib] Abstract: In this paper we address an important issue in human–robot interaction, that of accurately deriving pointing information from a corresponding gesture. Based on the fact […]

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Robust Model-Based 3D Torso Pose Estimation in RGB-D Sequences

Sigalas M., Pateraki M., Oikonomidis I., Trahanias P., 2013. Robust Model-Based 3D Torso Pose Estimation in RGB-D Sequences. In Proc. of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Dynamic Shape Capture and Analysis, held within Intl. Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 7 December, Sydney, Australia.  [doi] [pdf] [bib] Abstract: Free-form Human Robot Interaction (HRI) in naturalistic environments remains […]

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Application of dynamic distributional clauses for multi-hypothesis initialization in model-based object tracking

Nitti D., Chliveros G., Pateraki M., De Raedt L., Hourdakis E. and Trahanias P., 2014. Application of dynamic distributional clauses for multi-hypothesis initialization in model-based object tracking. In Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISAPP2014), 5-7 January, Lisbon, Portugal. [doi] [pdf] [bib] Abstract: In this position […]

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A framework for 3D object identification and tracking

Chliveros G., Figueiredo R.P., Moreno P., Pateraki M., Bernardino A., Santos-Victor, J. and Trahanias P., 2014. A framework for 3D object identification and tracking. In Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISAPP2014), 5-7 January, Lisbon, Portugal. [doi] [pdf] [bib] Abstract: In this paper we present […]

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Comparing task-based and socially intelligent behaviour in a robot bartender

Giuliani M., Petrick R., Foster M.E., Gaschler A., Isard A., Pateraki M., Sigalas M., 2013. Comparing task-based and socially intelligent behaviour in a robot bartender. In Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2013), 9-13 December, Sydney, Australia. [doi] [pdf] [bib] Abstract: We address the question of whether service robots that interact with humans […]

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Robust multi-hypothesis 3D object pose tracking

Chliveros G., Pateraki M., Trahanias P., 2013. Robust multi-hypothesis 3D object pose tracking. In Proc. of the 9th Intl. Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), LNCS 7963, pp. 234-243, Springer-Verlag, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 16-18, 2013. [doi] [pdf] [bib] Abstract: This paper tackles the problem of 3D object pose tracking from monocular cameras. Data association is […]

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Visual human-robot communication in social settings

 Pateraki M., Sigalas M., Chliveros G., Trahanias P., 2013. Visual human-robot communication in social settings. In Proc. of the Workshop on Semantics, Identification and Control of Robot-Human-Environment Interaction, held within the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 10 May, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013. [pdf] [bib] Abstract: Supporting human-robot interaction (HRI) in dynamic, multi-party social settings […]

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